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<h1 id="version-support-status">Version Support Status</h1>
<p>This page describes the support status of the significant versions of AngularJS.</p>
<div class="alert alert-info">
  On July 1, 2018 AngularJS entered a 3 year Long Term Support period.<br />
  <br />
  <em><strong>UPDATE (2020-07-27):</strong></em><br />
  <em>Due to COVID-19 affecting teams migrating from AngularJS, we are extending the LTS by six months
  (until December 31, 2021).</em>
</div>

<p>Any version branch not shown in the following table (e.g. 1.7.x) is no longer being developed.</p>
<table class="dev-status table table-bordered">
  <thead>
    <tr><th>Version</th><th>Status</th><th>Comments</th></tr>
  </thead>
  <tbody>
    <tr class="security">
      <td><span>1.2.x</span></td>
      <td>Security patches only</td>
      <td>Last version to provide IE 8 support</td>
    </tr>
    <tr class="stable">
      <td><span>1.8.x</span></td>
      <td>Long Term Support</td>
      <td>See <a href="misc/version-support-status#long-term-support">Long Term Support</a> section below.</td>
    </tr>
  </tbody>
</table>

<h3 id="long-term-support">Long Term Support</h3>
<p>On July 1st 2018, AngularJS entered a Long Term Support period.</p>
<p>We now focus exclusively on providing fixes to bugs that satisfy at least one of the following criteria:</p>
<ul>
<li>A security flaw is detected in the 1.8.x branch of the framework</li>
<li>One of the major browsers releases a version that will cause current production applications using AngularJS 1.8.x to stop working</li>
<li>The jQuery library releases a version that will cause current production applications using AngularJS 1.8.x to stop working.</li>
</ul>
<p>AngularJS 1.2.x will get a new version if and only if a new severe security issue is discovered.</p>
<h3 id="blog-post">Blog Post</h3>
<p>You can read more about these plans in our <a href="https://blog.angular.io/stable-angularjs-and-long-term-support-7e077635ee9c">blog post announcement</a>.</p>
<h3 id="extended-long-term-support">Extended Long Term Support</h3>
<p>If you need support for AngularJS beyond December 2021, you should consider:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://angularjs.xlts.dev">XLTS.dev</a></li>
</ul>


